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Kolb’s Farm

Kolb’s Farm

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by | Jun 18, 2019

Damaged by gunfire, Peter Valentine Kolb’s 1836 log house has been restored to its historic appearance (the house is not open to the public).

On the afternoon of June 22, 1864, General Hood’s Confederates were repulsed in an ill-fated attack just north of Powder Springs Road. Union General Joseph Hooker used the Kolb house for his headquarters after the fight.

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